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drumhead tribunals

drumhead tribunals is the plural of drumhead tribunal.

Meaning of drumhead tribunal

Noun

drumhead tribunal (plural drumhead tribunals)

  1. A drumhead court-martial.
    • I never knew you, Christopher Okigbo, / I saw you when an actor screamed "The tribes! / The Tribes!" I catch / the guttering, flare-lit / faces of Ibos, / stuttering, bug-eyed / prisoners of some drumhead tribunal.1969, Derek Walcott, “Negatives”, in Collected Poems, 1948-1984, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1986, page 124

Questions about drumhead tribunals

What is drumhead tribunals the plural of?
Drumhead tribunals is the plural of drumhead tribunal.

Words near drumhead tribunals in the dictionary

  1. drumhead clock
  2. drumhead clocks
  3. drumhead court-martial
  4. drumhead court-martials
  5. drumhead tribunal
  6. drumhead tribunals
  7. drumheads
  8. Drumheller
  9. Drumhellers
  10. Drumian
  11. Druminnin

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